The short stories in this book are brilliantly told and very powerful. The characters are so real that I found myself living alongside them. I will remember these people and their experiences for a long time.
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Truong's eyes were glazed when he opened them. He looked like a burnt ghost. He leaned over, away from his mother, and dry-retched. There was nothing left in him to expel. Another of their neighbors, a man who smelled of stale tobacco, averted his legs casually.
